BHSauthorresearch - Cody Wenner

Robert Frost
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Clancy, Heather. "Robert Frost: "The Presidential Poet"." N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Apr 2010. <http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/engramja/projects&evals/mag_1

His poetry is usually written in traditional verse form
Best known for "The Road Not Taken" and "My Butterfly"
His poetry is meant for mostly all age groups
He became interested in writing in high school at Lawrence High School
He went to Dartmouth College
He went to Harvard for 2 years, but didn't get a formal degree
His first was poem was "My Butterfly"
"My Butterfly" was published in the New York paper "The Independent" on November 8th, 1894
He won the Pulitzer Prize 4 times
"In the Clearing" was the last book he published before he died of a heart attack
Most of Frost's writing had to do with nature and outdoors
He uses a lot of imagery in his writing
He uses a lot of symbolism in his writing
He uses metaphors in his work to connect real life and inanimate objects
The messages in his poems and stories are hard to find, but by him using figurative language he gets the message across
Some of his poems are hard to understand because he is a traditional writer
The meanings are important to everyday life
The examples he uses in his writing occurs in life such as the right choice to make like in "The Road Not Taken"
He has been a teacher, cobbler, and editor of the "Lawrence Sentinel". He taught in Vermont and Massachusettes
Most of his work had to do with the area around him and where he has been

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Kennedy, X.J., and Dana Gioia. "Robert Frost." Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Apr 2010.

He is one of the best authors of the 20th century
People recognize his name, work, and voice
He is one of the greatest modern American poets of all time
His father was in journalism and politics
He married Elinor Miriam White on December 19, 1895
From 1890-1900 he taught and farmed
He sold his farm in 1911
"A Boy's Will" was the first book Frost wrote
"A Boy's Will" is a young man's book
That book was greatly influenced by romantic poets, Keats and Shelley. It is very noticable in the phrasing and subject
"North of Boston" was more accomplished and considered his finest single collection
"North of Boston", and "Mountain Interval" and "New Hampshire" were two immediate successes
In these poems he used his own things like subtle, longer narratives and monologues, and a few other things
Robert Frost is a mature man proved by his writing
He is portrayed as an intense poet that pours his emotions in his work
The speaker in the poems that Robert Frost writes is "careful and sly", usually a mature person that has experienced more than most people
His work catches the "sound of sense"
He is a traditional writer
His work is very descriptive, flows, and has amazing beauty
"He felt that the demands and challenges of strict form were necessary to stimulate one's best efforts and to give the poem its necessary dynamic tension"
He helped create a revolution against the poetic standards of his time
He appeared at John F. Kennedy's presidential inauguration in January 1961
His life was full of stress and sorrow, from losing basically his whole family and the rough marriages of his daughters
He didn't use his own losses in his poetry. He didn't believe in doing that
To many people he is a very wise person, but some people think underneath it all he is a tragic and terrifying poet "whose deepest note is one of inevitable human isolation"
There were biographies written about Frost that portrayed him as an animal and put his writing ahead of the love of his family, but that was very harsh and didn't show his generosity and love as a friend and family member. He was flawed just like everyone else, but he wasn't as bad as these biographies showed him as

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He considered himself a realist
He focuses on the natural flow of the human experience
He feels that people forget and poetry makes you remember
Frost defined poetry as "a momentary stay against confusion"
The way he talks sounds wise and aged
He captured America's heart during JFK's inauguration while many were watching and was televised
JFK announced Frost as an American diplomat for the then USSR. Some people say that Frost avoided a nuclear holocaust while doing his work
He inspired many with his poems and books
He was thought as a regional poet or farm poet
He actually traveled to many different places and influenced people around the world
He is always associated with land such as New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Vermont
All of his work is rural except for "Acquainted With The Night" which is urban
Some people think the timing of his rhyming is very good

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"Frost, Robert Lee (1874-1963)." DISCovering Biography. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Student Resource Center - Bronze. Gale. FREDERICK COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY. 29 Apr. 2010 <http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?
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Frost's work reflects how hard he works on everything
His "Mountain Interval" collection made him more known as a great poet
He writes about paradise sometimes
The poem "Birches" stresses the "self-reliance and moral observations"
Some of his poems are about choosing between the unknown
After "West-Running Brook" and "A Further Range" he understood politics more and helped with economic hardships
In these two collections he became the more friendly or neighborly poet who talks about the problems in the day
In this time he cared more about politics and the government instead of nature
His reputation was diminished toward the later part of his career
His final collections weren't given as much appreciation, but were some of his best work
"Directive" is considered his best later poem for using fantasy elements, symbolism, and varying allusions
Frost has been criticized for being selfish and not actually caring about nature
He is a great poet, but some people think that he has some major flaws
Many people praise Frost for his imagery, rythym of his poems, and dramatic tension
No one writes about the ordinary man like Frost does
There are some that thinks he writes with complete mastery
People think that poems should start with surprise and end in wisdom like Frost does
He uses dramatic monologues and dialogues
In "New Hampshire" he is becoming more willing to talk about himself
Some people think as Frost got older, his poems became more "abstract, cryptic, and even sententious"
Stephen Vincent Benet thought "A Witness Tree in Books" had some of the poems he had ever written in it
Frost read "The Gift Outright" at JFK's inauguration

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Warlow, Francis W. "Frost, Robert Lee (1874-1963)." Encyclopedia of World Biography. Ed. Suzanne M. Bourgoin. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale Research, 1998. 17 vols.Student Resource Center - Bronze. Gale. FREDERICK COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY. 29 Apr. 2010
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Frost started writing most of his poetry when he was around 40
Ezra Pound helped Frost get published in newspapers
"A Boy's Will" was written in conventional ryhmed stanzas and blank verse
Frost's poems "begin with delight and end with wisdom"
He expresses many moods throughout his poetry
Some of his poems like "Into My Own," "Mowing" and "A Tuft of Flowers," "convey an inclination toward nature, solitude, and meditation, toward the beauty of fact, and toward a New England individualism that acknowledges a need for love and community"
Poems like "North of Boston" is a more dramatic poem
"The Death of the Hired Man" is suspensful, compassionate, and it keeps you guessing
Even though he was considered a nature poet, he actually didn't like nature all that much because of the harshness, isolation, and anxiety in England nature
In his poetry it's not like a typical New Englander writing, he uses physcic and sexual forces, a destructive bound, and in-depth emotional requirements
The literary tradition in his poetry was noticable because the way he wrote things was like other traditional poets
He was very shy with the public and avoided crowds, but he overcame his shyness
He developed "an epigrammatic, folksy platform manner that made him one of the most popular performers in America and abroad"
Everyone recognized who Frost was and even when he grew older, he still was recognized by the public because of his eyes
He tried to have the sound of sense in his poetry
Frost believed that a poem should start with likenesses and end with experience
Frost changed the tone around in his poems and plays with the lyrics and narratives
"Robert Frost was an intentionally American and traditionalist poet in an age of internationalized and experimental art"
He used idioms, characters, and settings from New England
He brings back the roots of American culture, to get a universal experience